"Open Musings" is a series of short video talks published under the Ananda.ICU insight ecosystem.
⁘ "Browsing the open book of life. Plain contemplation and transparent reflections. Simple presence free of castings and tunings."
Episodes: 9 • Updated: 2026-04-16 • Repository: https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings
 
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🧶 How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001)
• Length: 10:06 • Date: 2025-08-07
— — "How do you feel?", asked an old friend. I feel alright. No longer vexed by existence. Patterns swooshing through space as they may. I bind not to it. I am not — and it's fine. And what of the world? What of the planet? What of religion and spirituality? Of us all? Of your personal life? Of your inner state? — "How do you feel about all that?" I feel like an open book.

🧶 Make Waves! Don't Just Reflect! — But What Am I? (OM002)
• Length: 10:45 • Date: 2025-08-08
— — "Make your waves!", said one new friend. — "Don't you just reflect!", said another new friend. But what is this "I" that should be splashing and casting, and why should it ripple about without rhyme and reason? Yes there's a certain void in a "post-resigned" awareness. No longer a subject hallucination at the high driver's seat.

🧶 Open See Same — Close See Other — Our Shared Threads (OM003)
• Length: 11:24 • Date: 2025-08-09
— We humans are like apples. In a thousand cultivars. Spectrum of colors and flavors. A world of diversity. Nutrition in each. Vitamins are universal. Do you see? Or argue about your favorite — and all the bad flavors? Open — See Same. We are together. Close — See Other. We are apart. — When you open your mind. You see the sameness. — When you close your mind. You see the difference.

🧶 A Core Package — Basic Message in a Clear Bottle (OM004)
• Length: 11:00 • Date: 2025-08-13
— — "So what is it that you wish to say?" ...asked no-one in particular, so I heard. Good question though — thanks for asking. Alright then. One neat baseline package for you. What I seek to communicate and share in thousand ways. 1. May we get over the narrow selves we're boxed into. Our tunnels: the fractured little identities we guard.

🧶 Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005)
• Length: 12:15 • Date: 2025-08-31
— "The truth is out there — and in here somewhere... Behind these veils — but I can feel its presence?" But how is it that this truth is not ever with us, intimately present in our lives? Why does it hide so? Raw actuality, uncolored and unbiased, is always there. Ever-available for you — should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil — and we have a positive veil.

🧶 Create to Fulfill Yourself — The World Matters Not (OM006)
• Length: 12:14 • Date: 2025-10-03
— Friends feeling sad, struggling with their creative process. Sharing the outflows — but why does the world not respond? Holding anticipations — and paving way for disappointments. But do we truly create for the world — or for ourselves? Artist, musician, author or spirited internet commentator? What emerges — it stems from your own process of evolution.

🧶 Lost and Found in Ever-Changing Environments (OM007)
• Length: 10:34 • Date: 2025-10-14
— Feeling lost and without direction? Happens at times. Why does it happen though? May we blame the environment? Or are we ourselves the architects of our disorientation? Where direction exists — but our self-framing is resistant. Then rise to a plane of awareness where specifics no longer matter.

🧶 No Shortcuts to Self-Awareness and Inner Evolution (OM008)
• Length: 12:24 • Date: 2025-10-16
— Were you looking for a neat short-cut to self-awareness? A magic wormhole to jolt you from here to enlightenment? So many pop vendors on the internet. Cheap options abound! If only it were that easy. Just bypassing your inner chores. When you evade the real work of your cognitive purification, there's no cosmic receiver, no vehicle for mystic journeys.

🧶 Into the Path — Purification, Insight, Contemplation (OM009)
• Length: 10:00 • Date: 2025-10-18
— Is there a path to be found here? A framework of methods one might engage? A bigger picture to provide context for all that has been shared? Yes: What has been shared so far are but early glimpses and windows into the path. In the whole of the journey, we have three major spheres of concern: Purification, insight and contemplation.

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